“Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.”

You gave him a license to steal.

Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don’t you have a word to say?

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.

Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.

And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.

most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it’s a tribal thing.

She doesn’t give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.

Because girls who were building empires for themselves did not need kingdoms to shine.

Radiohead’s already got their yachts and mansions. Sharon Osbourne already has her empire

Since they had a lot of property and controlled an empire of propaganda, they made the European governments helpless.

Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

When people throw stones at you, don’t throw them back. Collect them all and build an empire.

The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I’ve read in a long time.